WINDMILL HILL

PUBLISHED BY Quercus

'Rich in charm and surprises' GUARDIAN 'Transporting and entertaining' SUNDAY TIMES 'A triumph' PHILIP PULLMAN 'A delight' MICK HERRON 'Glorious' NINA STIBBE 'I loved it' CLAIRE FULLER 'Exquisite' CLOVER STROUD 'Truly memorable' JO CANNON

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MAGPIE LANE

PUBLISHED BY Quercus

'The word of mouth success. . .Riveting, twisty, page-turning stuff' -GUARDIAN Picked as one of the best novels of the year by the Guardian, BBC Radio 4's Open Book, the Telegraph & Good Housekeeping magazine.

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Lucy Atkins is an award-winning British author and journalist, who has written five novels, most recently the critically acclaimed WINDMILL HILL (2023). Her previous novel, MAGPIE LANE (2020), was picked as a book of the year by the Guardian, the Telegraph, Good Housekeeping, and BBC Radio 4 Open Book. Many of Lucy’s works are published internationally and THE NIGHT VISITOR (2017) has been optioned for television. 

Lucy teaches on the Creative Writing Masters degree at the University of Oxford. She is a book critic for the Sunday Times & the Guardian, has judged the Costa Book Awards and has written for UK newspapers including Guardian, Times, Sunday Times, Telegraph, Sunday Express, and many UK magazines

Before becoming an author, Lucy worked for Amnesty International (UK), and then the Times Literary Supplement. She studied English at Oxford University and was a Fulbright Scholar to the USA for a Masters in English & American literature. She has lived in Boston, Seattle and Philadelphia, and is now based in Oxford with her family. 

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